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5 People Play 1 Guitar

One person playing a guitar is impressive enough especially if that person is able to sing as well.

Now take a hit song like "Somebody That I Use To Know" and including all the different musical elements of the song, grab one guitar and five...

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LEADERSHIP QUOTE OF THE DAY (20 May 2012): 'DO' BETTER THAN YOU 'TALK'. - Jeff Doyle

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10 Laws of 'Just Doing It'

Here are 10 laws of productivity consistently observed among serial idea executors:

1. Break the seal of hesitation.
A bias toward action is the most common trait. The minute that you start acting (e.g. building a physical prototype, sharing a nascent concept with your community), you start getting valuable feedback that will help refine your original idea – and move forward with a more informed perspective.

2. Start small.
When our ideas are still in our head, we tend to think big, blue sky concepts. Take an idea for a skyscraper and model it in miniature? Once you’ve road-tested your idea on a small scale, you’ll have loads more insight on how to take it to the next level.

3. Protoype, prototype, prototype.
Trial and error is an essential part of any creative’s life. Rather than being discouraged by your “failures,” listen closely and learn from them. Then build a new prototype. Then do it again. Sooner or later, you’ll hit gold.

4. Create simple objectives for projects, and revisit them regularly.
Write down a simple statement summarising your objective at the start of each project. And then – this is the part we overlook! – revisit it regularly. When scope creep starts to happen, you’ll notice.

5. Work on your project a little bit each day.
Stimulate it regularly each day, and those juices start to flow more freely. As Jack Cheng argues in a great blog post, “Thirty Minutes A Day”: “the important thing isn’t how much you do; it’s how often you do it.”

6. Develop a routine.
In his recent memoir, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, famed Japanese author Haruki Murakami writes about how a rigorous routine – rising at 5am and going to bed at 10pm every day – is crucial to his impressive creative output.

7. Break big, long-term projects into smaller chunks or “phases.”
The dual benefit of this approach is: (1) making the project feel more manageable, and (2) providing incremental rewards throughout the project.

8. Prune away superfluous meetings (and their attendees).
To trim the runtime of internal meetings, you can also try the standing meeting.

9. Practice saying “No.”
Saying no is an essential part of the productivity equation.

10. Remember that rules – even productivity rules – are made to be broken.
Breaking habits offers new perspective and helps recharge us to head back into the fray.

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